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...claims that he served his country "in uniform" in contrast to the Democratic standard bearer. The fact is that of all the three baby- boomer candidates running this year, only Gore saw duty in Vietnam -- albeit as a noncombatant Army reporter with the 20th Engineering Battalion outside Saigon. Quayle avoided the draft and Vietnam by using his family connections to help him gain admittance to the Indiana National Guard -- a solution that Bill Clinton was considering at about the same time in Arkansas before he found other ways to stay out of the army...
Rheault tells Saigon that Chuyen disappeared on a spy mission, but this cover story fails to convince the colonel's already suspicious seniors. The lie soon unravels -- accelerated, in part, by General Creighton Abrams' antipathy for the Green Berets. By early August, only six weeks after the killing, the Associated Press breaks the story: BERET CHIEF, 7 aides charged in viet killing...
Axis. 13 Lansdowne St, Boston. Saigon Kick on Thursday, Oct. 8. DJ Debo downstairs; DJ David James upstairs on Friday, Oct. 9. Call 262-2437 for more information...
...Vietnam War for six months solely because he believed a "hawkish image" would benefit his 1972 election campaign, and he portrays Kissinger as having acquired a coroner's callousness toward the victims of geopolitics. According to Isaacson, Kissinger told Gerald Ford's press secretary on the eve of Saigon's fall in 1975, "Why don't these people die fast? The worst thing that could happen is for them to linger...
...detente, held the treaty granting the Soviet Union most-favored nation trading status hostage to Soviet agreement to allow expanded Jewish emigration. The Soviets retaliated by shutting off emigration and also, as Isaacson argues, by giving the green light to North Vietnam to make the final push toward Saigon...